WHIM syndrome: congenital immune deficiency disease

WHIM syndrome: congenital immune deficiency disease.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Warts, hypogammaglobulinemia, infections, and myelokathexis (WHIM) syndrome is characterized by susceptibility to human papilloma virus infection-induced warts and carcinomas; neutropenia, B-cell lymphopenia and hypogammaglobulinema-related infections; and bone marrow myelokathexis (myeloid hyperplasia with apoptosis). The purpose of this report is to review new findings about...

Pleural disease and acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

Patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) do not frequently have pleural complications. However, pneumothorax is a troublesome complication of patients with AIDS. At some medical centres, more than 50% of patients with spontaneous pneumothorax have AIDS. Most patients with spontaneous pneumothorax and AIDS have Pneumocystis carinii infection and necrotic subpleural blebs. The pne...

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

The first Australian case of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), which occurred in a 27-year-old homosexual man, is reported. The patient, an American citizen now resident in Sydney, presented with life-threatening pulmonary consolidation. AIDS is characterized by severe defects in cell-mediated immunity associated with infections and neoplasms (most commonly Pneumocystis carinii pneumo...

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

Pulmonary disease in the acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

T he acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is the most recent addition to the long list of primary and secondary immune deficiencies. Unfortunately, it has rapidly become the most common immune deficiency diagnosed in the United States today. Between the first report in 1981 and early 1984, over 3,000 cases of AIDS were recorded by the Centers for Disease Control.’ This article reviews the ...